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Re: sky is falling, again ? [message #75610 is a reply to message #75558]

Wed, 16 March 2011 10:53

Fabzou
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On 03/16/2011 06:06 PM, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:

>> Because of this problem, we now defined our own time system based on
>> "milliseconds since ..." (working with LONG64 formats to be sure). It
>> works nice, but it was a long (and a bit boring) work to make it
>> flexible and stable.
>>
>> I was wondering what are you people doing?
>>
>> Fab
>
> I have a small library to do date and time calculations that are
> exact to the second using structures and integer arithmetic. It
> could be modified to add a millisecond or microsecond field.
>
> You can download it here
>
> http://idl.tamu.edu/idl/Downloads.html
>
> (see bowman_lib.zip)
>
> Ken Bowman
>
>
>
> IDL> date1 = MAKE_DATE(2011, 3, 16, 12, 4, 0)
> IDL> date2 = MAKE_DATE(2011, 3, 17, 12, 4, 0)
> IDL> print, TIME_DIFF(date2, date1)
> 86400
> IDL> print, MAKE_ISO_DATE_STRING(date1)
> 2011-03-16 12:04:00
> IDL>

Yeah, once again I re-did something that already exists thousands of
time ;-)
Reading this newsgroup regularly, I learned the most important thing
ever: "first look if someone didn't do it for you"

Nice community, by the way...

Fab

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		Re: sky is falling, again ? By: natha on Wed, 16 March 2011 11:25
		Re: sky is falling, again ? By: Fabzou on Wed, 16 March 2011 10:53
		Re: sky is falling, again ? By: R.Bauer on Wed, 16 March 2011 10:38
		Re: sky is falling, again ? By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 16 March 2011 10:06
		Re: sky is falling, again ? By: Fabzou on Wed, 16 March 2011 09:52
		Re: sky is falling, again ? By: Norbert Hahn on Wed, 16 March 2011 07:54

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